Creative consultancy Masquespacio has completed a tropical sushi restaurant in Valencia, Spain, that mixes Japanese and Brazilian-inspired design elements.
Called Kaikaya, the restaurant's plant-filled green and maroon interior celebrates the Brazilian-Japanese food culture that has been created in the hundred years since Japanese immigrants first started to arrive in Brazil.

Now home to the largest Japanese population outside Japan, Brazil has cultivated a distinctive Japanese–Brazilian cuisine that blends Japanese cooking techniques with local ingredients.
The fusion of the two cuisines is reflected in the restaurant's interior, which blends materials used in Japanese design, such as wood and raffia, together with colorful mosaic tiles, parrot motifs and cascading tropical plants.
In particular, the designers said they were inspired by Tropicalismo – a Brazilian artistic movement that arose in the late 1960s.
"Above all, the design needed to contain a strong splash of colour, together with an eclectic style that could mix the two concepts of Japan and Brazil without being conventional," said Masquespacio, who elected to use a contrasting palette of maroon and green with accents of brass and raffia.

Spread over two floors, the 125-square-metre restaurant is housed in a long and narrow retail unit in the city centre that opens onto the street. The building's original brick vaulted ceiling and metallic beams have purposefully been exposed ...